Moscow invites N.Korea's Kim to visit

31/05/2018

The summit, which was canceled by Trump after North Korean officials harshly criticized Vice President Mike Pence, is once again a possibility with preparatory meetings taking place at the demilitarized zone that marks the border of North and South Korea, as well as in Singapore, and NY.

The US delegation's hotel in Seoul, the Four Seasons, is besieged by South Korean reporters, waiting to see if they leave for discussions in Panmunjom, approximately 45 minutes' drive north of the capital. Associated Press journalists saw the plane taxi down the tarmac before the North's delegation disembarked at JFK International Airport.

"For North Korea, Russia is less important compared to South Korea, the United States and China", Andrei Lankov, a professor of Korean Studies at Kookmin University in Seoul, told Al Jazeera.

"The readout from these meetings has been positive", Sanders said.

Their talks will be aimed at determining whether a meeting between Trump and Kim Jong Un, originally scheduled for June 12 but later canceled by Trump, can be restored, USA officials have said.

But the date of the summit in Singapore has already been announced.

In Singapore, a US summit preparatory team headed by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin has been coordinating summit logistics since Monday alongside Kim Chang Son, chief of staff to the North Korean leader. And if for whatever reason the North Koreans say they're not ready to do something like that, fine, we tried.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang on Thursday and invited him to visit, moving to raise Moscow's profile in global efforts to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula. But there are lingering doubts on whether he will ever fully relinquish his nuclear arsenal, which he may see as his only guarantee of survival in a region surrounded by enemies.

Pompeo's meeting with Kim Yong Chol in NY is going on at the same time as talks are underway in two other locales.

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Trump last week pulled out of the summit with Kim, planned for June 12 in Singapore, before announcing he had reconsidered and that US and North Korean officials were meeting to work out details. The White House said in a background briefing that North Korean officials hadn't answered their calls, frustrating their attempts to plan for the meeting.

Even the perpetually optimistic President Moon concedes that the US and North Korea might have different ideas about what "denuclearization" means, particularly Washington's ideas about how the process should be irreversible and verifiable.

As the USA and North Korean officials prepared for their first encounter in NY on Wednesday evening, Pompeo repeated the Trump administration's demands. Working-level parties from both North Korea and the United States are in the island state, looking into venues and logistics.

Kim's daily schedule is shared only among a select few party officials, and any reports in the state media are published only after his trips or public appearances have taken place.

In return the USA was offering "the security guarantees they feel they need" and help for North Korea to achieve greater prosperity.

Mr Trump sent this letter to Kim Jong Un last week. Trump's letter, the aides said, was created to pressure the North on the worldwide stage for appearing to have cold feet.

Mr Trump has said he remains hopeful he can negotiate a new meeting between the two countries on June 12.

A U.S. official said negotiations about the summit's agenda have so far been slow going, and the two fundamental issues, the definition of North Korean denuclearization and whether both sides would take actions at the same time or separately, remained unsettled.

As unification minister, Cho has also been involved in talks with the North on the possibility of replacing the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953 with a peace treaty. Kim is the highest-ranking North Korean official to visit the U.S.in 18 years. Trump will meet its Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Washington on June 7.

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